drogue

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Nautical See sea anchor.

n. A drogue parachute.

n. A funnel-shaped or cone-shaped device towed behind an aircraft as a target.

n. A funnel-shaped device at the end of the hose of a tanker aircraft, used as a stabilizer and receptacle for the probe of a receiving aircraft, as in refueling.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.

n. A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.

n. A conical basket or fabric construction used variously as a type of brake for some kinds of aircraft, a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.

n. A wind cone.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under drag, n.

n. a small parachute dragged behind a vehicle as a means of stabilizing it, or deployed first so as to assist opening of a larger parachute.

n. a funnel-shaped attachment at the end of a hose suspended from a tanker airplane in flight, to which the probe of another airplane may connect, so as to complete a connecting hose line through which fuel may be transferred from the tanker to the following airplane. It is used for in-flight refueling.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The drag, an implement, used to check the progress of a running whale by being bent on to the drogue-iron.

Examples

Probe-and-drogue refueling has been around since the 1940s. but no-one has attempted it with unmanned aircraft at high altitude (up to 60,000ft) and low speed (160ft), where deploying and stabilizing the drogue will be a challenge because of the low air density and dynamic pressure.

Soon he signaled us that he was nearly out of line, and two or three minutes after, he bent on his "drogue" (a square piece of plank with a rope tail spliced into its center, and considered to hinder a whale's progress at least as much as four boats) and let go the end.

This consisted of a small 6 feet (2 m) stabilizer or "drogue" parachute, designed to prevent uncontrolled spinning at high altitudes, and a 28 ft (8.5 m) main parachute that deployed at a lower altitude.

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"If we had two more in our party, I'd put Jake in a moving box with guns on every side of him. Since we don't, we'll move in column--me first, Jake pushing Susannah behind, and you on drogue." From The Wastelands by Stephen King.

"'Let her go and veer away,' he said, and the spritsail course, its clews stopped, dropped into the sea over her blind quarter, acting as a drogue. It checked her speed, but not too obviously..."—P. O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 254

A Sea of Words: "A contrivance, such as a wooden bucket, attached to the end of a harpoon line to check the progress of a whale when it is running or sounding. A submerged sail dragged to slow a sailing vessel." (178)